Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Philip Sidney and his sister Mary translated the biblical psalms into some of the greatest lyric poems of the English Renaissance. This is the first complete edition for over forty years, providing the Psalms in an authoritative modernized text, with glosses and notes and an introduction setting the Psalms in their literary and cultural context.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist. We are used to thinking of myths as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was a story that unveiled reality, and for Plato, myth-maker as well as myth-teller, a myth could tell us something important about ourselves and our world. The ultimate purpose of Plato's myths…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul? Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do so confirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is a major new translation of a classic work of Greek literature — Apollonius of Rhodes epic poem on the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The translation is both reliable and accurate, as well as gripping to read, and is designed to bring out the best of Apollonius brilliant, highly original, and sometimes disturbing poem. With a full glossary, notes, and introduction, this edition has…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the story of a noble slave who loves a princess. Acclaimed by Virginia Woolf as the first English woman to earn her living by the pen, Behns achievements as a writer are now acknowledged less equivocally than in the seventeenth century. As well as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: It's the summer holidays, and Eddie finds himself strangely drawn to the famous caves at Wookey Hole. He makes friends with the ticket seller there, and before long is allowed to roam wherever he wants. He loves it... until the day he gets lost. Just as panic sets in, his hand is taken by a strange girl, about his own age, who guides him to the surface. Gwerren is weird. She's extraordinarily…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The Trueheart house is busy and bustling-because today is a special day. Tom's older brothers are getting married and preparing to live happily ever after. But then an unexpected wedding guest arrives. Someone who has decided that there will be no more Happy Endings. Tom's brothers and their brides are whisked off to the Land of Dark Stories, as prisoners of their old enemy Brother Ormestone. And…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Orphan Ray has been separated from his sister. The only clue to finding her is a lodestone, left to him by his father before he vanished. The lodestone tugs Ray towards a train bursting with astounding characters. Soon Ray is hurtling across the Wild West, joining in as they perform their enthralling medicine show. But something dark is following the train. Something that wants to steal people's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Luke is in trouble. Skin and the gang have a job for him. They want him to break into Mrs Little's house and steal the jewellery box. They want him to prove that he's got what it takes. That he's part of the gang. But Luke finds more than just a jewellery box in the house. He finds something so unexpected it will change his life forever... This is a wonderful, rich novel, written with lyricism,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Hero Foundation is a shadow of its former self and Lord Eon — the most terrible supervillain ever — is still at large. Worse, he has hatched a plan to tear apart time. Toby and his superhero friends should be able to stop him... but Pete has woken from his coma a different person and Lorna has disappeared. In the titanic struggle that will follow, friendships will be tested and superhero…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Excuses, Excuses is a perennial favourite and best-selling collection of poems about school, compiled by top anthologiser John Foster. Most the poems here are humorous, but some are more serious and will make you think. Many of them have been written specially for this collection and, together with other poems by such well-known children's poets as Michael Rosen, Kit Wright, and Spike Milligan,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Freydis has been left for dead following a raid by pirates on her father's Viking stronghold. Her brother has been kidnapped-and Freydis's father is hell-bent on revenge. But this is a volatile man who loathes his daughter and is driven by love of his son. Reluctantly he takes Freydis with him on his journey, giving her a slave-Enno-to tend her. As Freydis's father becomes more bitter and cruel,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Making plan with Scarlet to deal with post-break-up trauma. We are going to channel anger into something positive and have new mission statement: 1. Not to moon about over exes but to embrace single life. 2. To stay away from all men (Sad Ed excepted as he is not actual man. He tried to disagree on this but was outnumbered). 3. To remain true to our friends, forsaking all others. 4. To remember…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: I need more tragedy in my life. Why is life never like it is in books? Nothing Jacqueline Wilson ever happens to me: I am not adopted, my mum is not tattooed, I am not likely to move to the middle of a council estate or be put into care. My parents are not alcoholics, drug addicts or closet transvestites. Even my name is pants. In other words, my life is earth-shatteringly NORMAL. This cannot go…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: He smiled, showing teeth yellow from cigarette smoke. He looked at his desk diary, then at her papers again. Mmm... a hundred pesos a month, Why, that's one thousand two hundred pesos a year. Surely, you can afford to buy me a forty-peso dinner! How can Marina say no? How can she refuse the Chief's next request? He is an evil man, but she needs her promotion...
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His farther was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundereds of stars. Behind the ship, and iceburg, a great mountain of ice — goes slowly away into the black night. In the beautiful first-class rooms, rich passengers eat and listen to music. Down in the third-class cabins, families sleep. An exciting new life is waiting for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 356) Аннотация: The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in…